Cup-holder.



` PATENTED PEB. 14, 1905.

C. D. HOLDEN. CUP HOLDER. APPLIUATION FILED Nov. s, 1904.

witwassen @mouw UNITED STATES Patented February 14, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

CUP-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 782,448, `dated.February 14, 1905.

Application filed November 3,

T0 a/ZZ whom it mja/y concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES D. HOLDEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented newand useful Improvements in Cup- Hold-ers, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention pertains to means for holding cups; and' it has for itsobject to provide a simple, compact,and inexpensive device adapted tohold a cup in such manner that dust, &c., iseffectually excluded fromthe interior of the cup and there is no liability of the cup beingcasually displaced, and this notwithstanding the fact that the cup maybe removed from the holder with facility andas readily replaced therein.

With the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood fromthe following description and claim when taken in connec-` tion with theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. in which-Figure l is a vertical section illustrating the holder constituting thepresent and preferred embodiment of my invention as holding a cup of thetumbler type. Fig.- 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontalsection taken in the plane indicated by the line 3 3 of Fig. 1 lookingdownwardly, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the holder per se.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of thedrawings.

Referring to the drawings, A is a support, which may be a bracket,designed to be attached to an upright or any other device compatiblewith the purposes of my invention. The said support is providedwith avertically-disposed opening a, which by preference is tapered orgradually reduced in size downwardly, as shown.

B is my novel holder as a whole. The said holder is preferably, thoughnot essentially, of metal and comprises a body C and a cap D. The bodyis f formed in one piece and has an open plate c arranged on the supportA around the opening a and connected to the support through the mediumof screws d or other suitable means and a ange e depend- 1904. SerialNc. 231,296. /J

preferably tapered or gradually reduced in diameter downwardly. The capD is preferably, though not essentially, elliptical in form,l Fig. 2,and has a skirt-flange f, designed to bear on the upper side of thebody-platee and cover and surround` the cup (lettered E) when the latteris in the flanged opening of the body. Said cap D also has a roundedportion at oneend, asbest shown in Fig. l, 00 and a lug g, interposedbetween two lugs/t on the body-plate c and connected thereto in a hingedmanner, so as to permit of the cap being readily swung from the positionillustrated to an upright position. and vice versa.

VIn the practical use of the holder the drinking or other cup is placedin the flanged opening of the body C while the cap D is swung back, andthe cap is then swung over the cup and body-t'. e., into the positionshown. In 70 the latter position the cap will obviously cover and closethe upper end of the cup, and therejby eectually lprevent dust, dirt,and the like' from gaining access to the interior of the same, which isan important advantage for hygienic reasons. It will also be observedthat the weight of the cap imposed on the upper end of the cup will tendto prevent casual upward movement of the cup in the holder and that byreason of this casual displacement 8O of the cup from the holder, as bythe rolling of a ship or the shaking' of a car, will be effectuallyprevented. In preventing casual displacement of the cup from theholder-body the' cap D is assisted by the preferable taper 85 form ofthe cup and the flange e, by virtue of which the cup is wedged in theholder-body. When, however, it is desired to remove the cup from theholder, the sarnemay be accomplished by simply throwing the cap back andlifting the cup out of the holder-body.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that the cup may be removedv fromand replaced and 'secured in the novel holder quite as eX- peditiouslyas a cup is removed from and rel placed in an ordinary holder having nomeans for closing a cup and securing the same agalnst casualdisplacement.

I prefer to make the cap D of generalellipf Y e/gact understanding ofthe said embodiment.

do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to suchspecific construction and relative arrangement of parts, as such changesor modifications may be made in practice as fairly fall within the scopeof my invention as claimed.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

The combination of a suitable support having an opening, and acup-holder comprising a body having an open plate arranged on andattached to the support, around the opening therein, and a flangedepending from .the inner edge of the plate and disposed in the openingof the support and tapered toward its lower edge, and a cap having askirt-flange rounded at one end; the said cap being arranged on theplate of the body and hinged at its rounded end thereto.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence-of twosubscribing witnesses.

CHARLES D. HOLDEN.

